Project:Food Rescue

The Storage Life Insights project is about understanding expiry dates and the behaviour of food as it ages, in order to combat consumer food waste. It will mostly consist of additions to the Open Food Facts mobile applications, server software and web interface. It may also result in additional software for features that don't fit into the official Open Food Facts software.

The project receives funding from the German ministry of education and research from 2020-03 to 2020-08. In Germany, the project is known and promoted under the name "Real MHD App", where "MHD" is the typical abbreviation of "Mindesthaltbarkeitsdatum", the German word for best-before date.

Getting started

As of 2020-03, the project is in the early stages of development. Expect a first usable software product around 2020-06-01.

Overview of project resources:

Project website. Focusing on our audience in Germany. Everything there is also contained here in the wiki.
Prototype Fund webpage. A short description of our project by our funding agency, in German. (See also: auto-translated version.)
Project wiki. (This very page and its sub-pages!) The project wiki provides the complete technical documentation of the project, collects ideas for further development etc..
Git repository. Our fork of the Open Food Facts native Android app where we develop this project's software functionality.
Slack channel. During the project runtime, we communicate mainly in the Open Food Facts slack channel #expirydates. To join, first invite yourself to the Open Food Facts Slack instance, then join that channel.
Team contacts. Currently, Matthias Ansorg (matthias@ansorgs.de) is the main developer working on this project. He gets some help from others in the open source community, and you're welcome to contribute as well.

Idea and concept

See Concept.

Features

See Features.